Video camera having hard disk drive and optical disk drive

• US 7,616,259 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2007
• Issued: 11/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Okazaki, Gen, Ishikuro, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz; David L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Durnford-Geszvain; Dillon
• Application Number:
  US11/627,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20070285517A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,019 Days
• Field of Search: 348373-376
• US Class Current: 348/374
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

A video camera, building in a hard disk drive and an optical disk drive within the same housing, for dissolving a problem of increasing the temperature of hard disk drive due to heats generated within an inside of the main body thereof, comprises: an image pickup portion, which is configured to make photographing; a display portion 6, which is configured to display an image photographed; a hard disk drive 1 which is configured to record the image photographed therein; and an optical disk drive 9, which is configured to drive an optical disk being attached/detached, wherein the display portion 6, the optical disk drive 1, the hard disk 9 are disposed in that order, and the hard disk drive 1 is disposed on a cover portion to be opened when taking out the optical disk from the optical disk drive 9.

Claims

1. A video camera comprising:

an image pickup portion to photograph an image;

a hard disk drive to record a photographed image;

an optical disk drive to drive an optical disk which is at least one of attached to and detached from the optical disk drive; and

a controller portion that causes said image pickup portion to photograph an image, processes the photographed image, and then causes said hard disk drive or said optical disk drive to record the image;

wherein a substrate mounting said control portion thereon, said optical disk drive, and said hard disk drive are disposed in this order in a direction of a rotation axis of said optical disk and said hard disk; and

wherein said hard disk drive is disposed on a cover portion to be opened when taking out an optical disk from said optical disk drive.

2. The video camera as claimed in claim 1 having a display portion to display video information,

wherein a controller board is disposed between said display portion and said optical disk;

and

wherein a line interconnecting said hard disk drive and said board is passed between a hinge portion with which said cover portion is one of opened and closed and said cover portion.

3. The video camera as claimed in claim 2, wherein said line is disposed at a position off the intersection of a center of an optical disk loaded in said optical disk drive and a hinge axis of said hinge portion.

4. A video camera comprising:

an image pickup portion to photograph an image;

a hard disk drive to record a photographed image;

an optical disk drive to drive an optical disk which is at least one of attached to and detached from the optical disk drive; and

a controller portion that causes said image pickup portion to photograph an image, processes the photographed image, and then causes said hard disk drive or said optical disk drive to record the image;

wherein a substrate mounting said controller portion thereon, said optical disk drive, and said hard disk drive are disposed in this order in a direction of a rotation axis of said optical disk and said hard disk drive;

wherein a rotation center of said optical disk drive is off a rotation center of said hard disk drive; and

wherein an optical axis of an optical pickup of said optical disk drive does not intersect with a magnetic disk of said hard disk drive.

5. The video camera as claimed in claim 4, wherein a magnetic shield is disposed in a narrowest space between the optical pickup for said optical disk and said hard disk drive.